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Publications and papers under review

• The Effects of Social Capital on Government Performance and Turnover: Theory and Evidence from Italian Municipalities ( 2021) (joint with Ben Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli , Emanuele Bracco, Federica Liberini, and Daniel Sgroi), TWERP working paper 1284 (Under revision).

• The Transmission of Cultural Identity and Social Capital in Italy. (2021) (joint with Daniel Sgroi, Federica Liberini, Ben Lockwood, , Francesco Porcelli, Emanuele Bracco). Ethical Approval granted. AEA RCT Registry Entry. TWERP working paper 1283, (Under revision).

• Politics in the Facebook Era. Evidence from the 2016 US Presidential Elections. (2020) (with Federica Liberini, Antonio Russo, Angel Cuevas and Ruben Cuevas), CESIfo working pape 8235 , (Under revision).

• Was Brexit Triggered by the Old and Unhappy? Or by Financial Feelings? (2019) (joint with Federica Liberini, Andrew Oswald and Eugenio Proto), CEPR Discussion Paper 13439, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization , Volume 161, 287-302. (available here)

• Was Brexit caused by the Unhappy and the Old? (2017) (joint with Federica Liberini, Andrew Oswald and Eugenio Proto), CAGE wp , forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization. (See the VOXEU version here

• Political Competition, Tax Salience and Accountability. Theory and some evidence from Italy. (2018) (joint with Emanuele Bracco and Francesco Porcelli) European Journal of Political Economy.

• Happy Voters, (2017) (joint with Federica Liberini and Eugenio Proto), Journal of Public Economics, 146, pp, 41–57, available here. (See the VOXEU version here)

• Intergovernamental grants as signal and the alignment effect: theory and evidence. (2015) (joint with Emanuele Bracco, Ben Lockwood, Francesco Porcelli), Journal of Public Economics, 123, pp. 78-91, available here. (See the EUROPP Blog on an earlier version of paper here)

• Tax Competition among European Countries. Does the EU Matter? (2014), European Journal of Political Economy, 34, 353–371, available here.

• Does Centralisation Affect the Number and Size of Lobbies? (2010), Journal of Public Economic Theory, 12(3), 407-435, available here.

• Do Countries Compete over Corporate Tax Rates ? (with Mike Devereux and Ben Lockwood), (2008), Journal of Public Economics, 92(5), 1210-1235, available here.

• Horizontal and vertical Tax Competition: Theory and Some Evidence from the USA (with Mike Devereux and Ben Lockwood), (2007), Journal of Public Economics, 91, Issue 3-4, 451-479, available here.

• The Political Economy of Policy Centralisation: Direct versus Representative Democracy (with Kim Scharf), (2004) Journal of Public Economics 88, 799-817, available here.

Working papers and work in progress

• Happiness and Productivity in the Field (joint with Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi)

• Social Capital, Electoral Behaviour and Government’s Performance, (joint with Emanuele Bracco, Ben Lockwood and Francesco Porcelli)

• Electoral Performance Spillovers: Theory and Evidence, (joint with Emanuele Bracco, Ben Lockwood and Francesco Porcelli)Capital

• Account Liberalization and Corporate Taxes, (with Mike Devereux and Ben Lockwood), (2003) IMF Discussion paper n 03/180.

Other writings

• Politics in the Facebook Era. How reading political ads on Facebook affects our voting behaviour

• (…and helped Trump to win the Presidential elections) VoxEU, November 2018, here.

• Brexit – a cry of financial pain, not the influence of the old, (with Federica Liberini, Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto) , VOX-EU , 17 October 2017, here.

• Brexit: financial unsatisfaction or intergenerational conflict? (with Federica Liberini, Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto) , UK in a Changing Europe, 23 October 2017 here

• Happy voters Briefing. Is the economy stupid?. Social Market Foundation, 31 May 2017, here.

• Local government areas that are controlled by the same party as national governments receive larger grants and have lower taxes. (with Emanuele Bracco and Francesco Porcelli) EUROPP Blog (2013), here.

• Happiness and voting, ( with Federica Liberini, Eugenio Proto), VOX-EU , 15 November 2013, here.

• “David Cameron should pay attention to the “Happiness” of British citizens; it will help him win the next general election”, with Federica Liberini, Eugenio Proto) LSE British Politics and Policy, 9 October 2013, here.